If you search Aprende francés con videojuegos there's some CI gaming videos by a guy named Vincent. It's in ALL French, not Spanish, despite the video names and descriptions being Español.
He has tons of Uno and Fall guys, but there's also Overcooked, Moving out, and Slime Rancher. I don't know what level yet, but he seems to talk slowly and simply.
I hope I'm not jumping for joy too early on this, but...
I just wanted to point out and celebrate that Dreaming French seems to have increased the number of daily videos to two a day! They've been uploading two videos more regularly for the past few weeks and have exclusively done so for almost a week now, and so I think it might be safe to say that we can expect two videos a day from now on as they continue to ramp up their production and are hiring new guides!
They've also been more regularly putting out more superbeginner and beginner videos too, which is great for everyone starting out.
If they stay on this trajectory, I could easily see that in a handful of months or so someone might be able to truly use it as their primary resource with only some lighter supplementation from other resources.
Super exciting!
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However, he is keeping the 80+ videos he already has on there and he will be uploading more gaming content for members only on his main channel French With Felix
It’s is nice to get to the next level. I have been doing 1 hour a day.
I am going to be honest. I am behind the road map and that is fine. I seriously doubt I know 3,000 or even 1,500 words.
I am on the beginner level on DF. Super beginner is easy enough. Podcast hasn’t quite opened up yet, but I am moving along.
Anyhow that is for this progress report. Everyone good luck. Maybe I will treat myself to a coffee.
We're a family of 4 at 12hrs and we've been doing a little more each day and are at around 30 minutes per day now. But as we begin to consume the CI faster, I think we're going to run out pretty quick.
Does anyone know how much content gets added each week between Dreaming and Immersion? I think Immersion advertised 10 new videos per week and I know Dreaming is adding new guides to increase output but combined the 2 services only* have ~140 hours of content.
*I mean 'only' in relation to the 1500 hours goal and not as a knock on either service for a lack of content.
I'm comparing these for A1/A2 learning. I've already compared this some but I really want to say that I wish more CI content followed Alice Ayel's method. For A1/A2, I need to build vocabulary. In the Alice Ayel baby/infant videos, comprehension is almost 100% because she is extremely good at introducing new vocabulary using drawings, gestures, related words, or brief definitions to help with the new word and then reinforces this new vocabulary in subsequent videos. So a 5 minute story takes her 25 minutes to tell (compare her videos with the supplied audio, which is just an oral reading of the story).
Many other sources at the beginner level (dreaming, immersion, easy french) just simply drop in new vocabulary with no resource to help understand. Dreaming will sometimes show an image of a noun, which works well, but will often show nothing. Morgane at Immersion does this some. Some immersion guides tend to say many of the sentences 2-3 times, very slowly, which may help with word parsing but doesn't help at all for comprehension if the issue is the vocabulary. At this speed, it's not the parsing (again, at this speed), its the vocabulary. FCI is a bit more like Alice Ayel. Easy French is probably the hardest because it will use unknown words but not explain them AND it tends to be fast (so it can be the parsing).
What I like about Dreaming/Immersion/FCI and especially easy french is the focus on the kinds of content that is more relevant to what we would need to understand typical adult conversations visiting quebec or for watching french Netflix TV series like Lupin. I just wish they someone would combine Alice Ayel's method with something like Easy French content.
Compared with Dreaming Spanish, which I also started from zero, I’ve never felt as confident in the method as I do in these first 12 hours of French.
A lot of these beginner videos are almost 100% comprehensible. Have Spanish and English ever helped! This is a stark contrast to when I started Spanish, when it felt like I could only understand a single word per video.
At 12 hours in, I feel like my French listening comprehension is at a similar level to where I was after 60–80 hours of Spanish. In other words, with around five times fewer hours, my comprehension is at a comparable level. And, I feel like it will only get faster from here.
My daily goal when I started was just 15 minutes, and I’ll keep it there, but I’ve been averaging just over one hour per day. I’m enjoying it just as much as Spanish, and I’ll continue with it. My Dreaming subscription runs out today, so I’m going to watch as many videos as I can, then I’ll move on to Alice Ayel.